Wednesday Trending Topics: The Unsuspecting Spider-Man

Is there such a thing as Too Much Information in the social media era? Today, Marvel published Amazing Spider-Man #699, the follow up to the explosive twist in Amazing Spider-Man #698. So, you know, spoilers. You know the forum has something to say about this one.

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A number of things were announced internally by DC Comics yesterday. Hopefully we’ll get to some of them during the day. But one that happened a few days ago was a very noticeable change in the way they do business out of the New York offices.

There are more aspects that tie into Death Of The Family in some of the non-tie books that with today’s die cut cover Detective Comics #15. At least on the surface. But this juxtaposition rather fits the themes in Snyder’s book…

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As the final series of The Office moves along time is running out for some loose ends to be tied up. One pay off we’ve been promised is that the documentary crew, who have been filming the Dunder Mifflin-Sabre lot for the best part of a decade, are actually going to play a more active part in the story. I expect we’ll find out what they were actually filming for – and I also expect it will be something unexpected.

Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi war movie Ender’s Game is finally on its way to the big screen. Its story of youths being drilled and sent to fight is certainly topical – once again. It’s also pretty friendly to the YA audience who embraced The Hunger Games, as well as seasoned sci-fi buffs.

And now, Wolf and Musa Publishing have announced the third book in the series, Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?, using a banner that features the movie versions of Roger, Benny the Cab and Jessica – and Wolf himself.

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Coincidentally or not, they immediately issued a press release announcing that Karen Berger, Executive Editor of DC Vertigo and Senior VP at DC Comics, was stepping down after twenty years at the company.